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Praying The Rosary
Topic Started: Sunday, 23. September 2007, 03:29 (684 Views)
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More encouragement for the recitation of the Rosary from the late Pope John PaulII

Angelus Address

Sunday, 25 October 1998

At the end of this solemn liturgical celebration, I am pleased to greet all of you, dear pilgrims, who have come from various countries to honour the new blesseds. Let us now turn our gaze to Mary most holy, whom our brothers and sister tenderly loved and faithfully imitated. Devotion to the Virgin Mother of God and the recitation of the Rosary held a special place in their lives.

The month of October is the month of Mary, the month of the Rosary. This simple, profound prayer, dear to individuals and to families, was once widely recited by the Christian people. How good it would be if the Rosary were rediscovered and appreciated today, especially in families! It helps us reflect on the life of Christ and the mysteries of salvation; by repeated invocation of the Blessed Virgin, it dispels the seeds of family disintegration; it is a sure bond of communion and peace.

I urge everyone, especially Christian families, to find in the Holy Rosary a daily strength and support for walking the path of fidelity.

May Mary, Queen of the Holy Rosary and of All Saints, help us to pursue our mission as believers without wavering. Let us turn to her with filial abandonment, as did the new blesseds whom we contemplate today in heavenly glory. May Our Lady especially support families, so that they can accept the Gospel with integrity and live it in their daily lives.


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Rosary Quotes:
"Airplanes must have runways before they can fly. What the runway is to the airplane, the Rosary beads are to prayer - the physical start to gain spiritual altitude."
--Fulton J. Sheen

"The Rosary is the most powerful prayer to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our Redeemer, who so loves His Mother." St. Louis de Montfort:

"Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day be led astray. This is a statement that I would gladly sign with my blood."
St. Louis de Montfort

"The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary."
St. Francis de Sales.

"You must know that when you ‘hail’ Mary, she immediately greets you! Don’t think that she is one of those rude women of whom there are so many - on the contrary, she is utterly courteous and pleasant. If you greet her, she will answer you right away and converse with you!"
St. Bernardine of Siena

I haven’t checked this site properly, but it may assist those who find praying the Rosary difficult
http://www.virtualrosary.org/index.php
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Virtual Rosary is a free program with three goals in mind:
1: To teach the rosary and make it simple with the program's super-easy operation.
2: To help keep the rosary refreshing and deep for anyone with the aid of scripture, illustrations, and music.
3: To build a worldwide community of people to pray for each other through the PrayerCast network.


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A recording of Pope Benedict XVI reciting the Rosary in Latin is to go on sale as a four-CD box set, "It was born as an answer to listeners and from several Catholic radio stations," director of the Holy See’s Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi said on Vatican Radio

Benedict's predecessor, John Paul II, on several occasions recited the Rosary live on Vatican Radio, providing the faithful with "great consolation" while "facilitating their prayer and devotion" Fr Lombardi said.

However, John Paul stopped the practice as his health grew frail, and while tape recordings of the late pontiff's recitals exist, listeners were eager to hear versions of the Rosary by Benedict after his election as pope in 2005

He explained that the Pope decided to record the CDs in Latin because “we have received requests not only from Italy but from places such as Germany and other countries. So we have used this language for the Rosary which everyone understands easily and because it is the universal language of the Church.”

The CD box set will initially be available from the Vatican official bookshop on St Peter's Square at a cost of 15 euros (23 dollars).
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A friend, who was learning about Catholicism, with a view to becoming a Catholic, once produced something from her bag. She said "Rose, I used to visit an old lady who had no family. We got very close, and she gave me these and said 'please keep these, one day you will use them. I did not understand. Are they rosary beads?"

I explained what the Rosary is about. My friend wanted to know how people manage to say the prayers, and consider the mysteries, simultaneously.

It seems worth while discussing this. I bet we all have our individual preferences for praying the Rosary. It is a prayer I prefer to say alone at my own pace, rather than in a group.

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I pray it on my own sometimes, other times in church, usually just before Mass. In the Legion of Mary all our meetings start with the Rosary. Meditating on the mysteries takes some practice, but is very rewarding when you get the hang of it. When I was in Ireland in May, we prayed the Rosary on the way to Knock - I must say the Irish way of doing it takes some getting used to! It was said at a mile a minute!

I prefer to say it at my own pace, but I also think it's important for it to be said publicly, so I will lead it if no one else wants to lead it in church.

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I think that the Hail Mary can be a difficult prayer to pray....as opposed to saying it...... as one is often obliged to do when in a group. In fact, most prayers are a bit like that. I found that if I tried to 'talk' the prayer to Our Lady it became easier but everyone is different, I suppose. Then comes the effort of trying to concentrate on the theme of the mysteries. I still can't get comfortable with that although I remember a Franciscan priest gave me notes where, for each mystery of the rosary, you said the Hail Mary with the intervention of "...fruit of thy womb Jesus, who......" and there was a comment on something relevant to that particular mystery before continuing with "holy Mary mother of God etc.". Must try to find it, now that I remember.
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"Meditating on the mysteries"

Yes, I use this form; rarely participate in public - but that's mostly because other duties clash.

Sometimes I think doing it this way is lazy; at others I excuse myself by thinking the usual manner is too automatic.

For me one Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory be is sufficient for a whole decade. The full ten Hail Mary's alllows my imagination to run out of steam and even think of what I am going to buy at the Supermarket.

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How do we pray the Rosary?


Badly, in my case.

I say at least 5 decades a day. I find it hard to keep in mind the mystery and the intention for which I'm praying.

However, strangely enough, I have no difficulty at all "meditating" on completely irrelevant matters while I say the rosary!
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The "ten minute" Rosary does not suit me. One decade can take two minutes, or half an hour.

The word "meditate" could put some people off, if they are new to the Rosary, or indeed to prayer. We have all heard about the Beatles learning to meditate and of course we read of nuns and monks meditating.

Meditation is for all, we could use another term - thinking.

The First Joyful Mystery, the Annunciation, can lead to thinking of Mary telling her parents she was going to have a baby, but was still a virgin; Joseph the respected tradesman learning what was to happen; local people, perhaps gossiping. I wonder what Our Lady's cousin Elizabeth made of it? Did anybody explain to Elizabeth and her husband?

When I say the rosary, I let my mind wander, thinking about the Mystery, and don't worry if my thoughts do not tie in with the time it takes to say ten Hail Mary's.

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Usually I focus more on the mysteries of the day than the words of the prayer. If I have been reading something on the Our Father or the Annunciation, I can get stuck on a phrase of a prayer. In fact, all sorts of things can happen.

It is the one practice of prayer that has stayed with me throughout my life - at times of doubt, of pain, of alienation from the Church (and at good times :D ), I have rarely passed a day without saying at least one decade. It is one of the many benefits of a somewhat old-fashioned Catholic upbringing for which I am very grateful. It is without a doubt one of a number of important factors which have bound me to the Church (whether at times I wanted to be or not!).

Although I don't usually use beads, when I had a series of operations I somehow never quite remembered to take a prayerbook to hospital, but always had a set of beads with me.

As an aside, the contribution about the ladies on the way to Knock rattling through the decades a mile a minute for some reason brought to mind an image of prayer wheels.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer
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A friend told me she had left her purse, with all her wages inside it, in a phone box. She said "I'll get over losing the money, but my Rosary beads have gone, I've had them since I was a little girl." She was over forty, and was still carrying those same beads around. Now here is something odd - she had not been to Mass since she grew up, but the rosary was still very important to her.
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"I have no difficulty at all "meditating" on completely irrelevant matters while I say the rosary! "

I have no doubt Clare that St. Teresa would agree with you.

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Ned

Hi All,

I have a distinct memory that when I was a boy I read an article about the Rosary beads in which each of the 59 beads was given its own individual name.

Does anyone else have a similar memory, or know those names?

The idea was that if you are able to instantly name each of those individual beads then you could use the beads as a mnenonic. In the simple form you would associate something you needed to remember with a particular bead - then, in your memory, store those details 'inside' that bead.

In a more advanced method you would associate each bead with a particular part of your home and then, when you wanted to remember something, you would imagine yourself 'carrying' the information into your home and placing it in a particular place in a particular room. To recall the information you would again imagine yourself once again going into your home and retrieving it.

It would be rather like that memory-man in one of the film-versions of the 'Thirty-nine Steps' - he had the Royal Navy's war-plans memorised so that he instantly reeled them off when asked what were 'The 39 Steps'.

I know it sounds bizarre but in the days before mass-production the beads would not have all been absolutely identical to each other in the way that they are now. And even today it wouldn't be to difficult to individualise some of the beads.

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Tuesday, 19. August 2008, 19:20
... ... ... before mass-production the beads would not have all been absolutely identical to each other in the way that they are now. And even today it wouldn't be to difficult to individualise some of the beads.
Hi All,

Further to the above posting, I've been searching the web to discover if there is anyone in Britain making rosaries.

I can't find anyone. There are plenty of people in the USA but nobody in Britain.

The next time I'm in London I'll ask in some of the shops selling devotional items but, please, does anyone know of an appropriate supplier ?

I'm not looking for a set of beads made of gold of jewels - just a set of beads where all the beads and the links aren't all identical.

Regards

Ned
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I don't know of specialist rosary makers in the UK.

Praying the rosary is one of those weird things, some of the time, it can be a slog to keep focused, some of the time it feels 'ok', but then there'll be one time when everything works, and it's incredible. Only wish that happened more often!
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